bad sectors! err

[likwid8]

check this out....

I burned a vcd movie to be played on my VCD player, its 2 cds and the first vcd played fine, second one was really messed up and lagged and stopped and everyrthing. I had to take it out and almost kick at it..

Heres the prob... the 2nd vcd plays fine on my computer but not on my DVD Player... then when i try to extract the information to my HDD, or even do a cdcopy, it says bad sectors detected!!

So how can it be bad sectores if i can view my whole movie on my PC, and please someone show me how to fix it...

Programs I used to extract and didnt work:
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Vcdgear
Winiso
ClonceCD
CdCopy
cd drive -> HDD (direct copy and paste) (gave me some dos error msg)

[Sefy]

A PC can handle bad sectores much better then a VCD/DVD Player can, thats why you can view it on the PC.

As for how to copy, have you tried NERO ? BlindWrite Suite ?

[likwid8]

i havent tried it.... but are you suggesting these because i havent tried these or you "know" that it might work with there 2 programs...

Because I would find it of a coinicende that I've used already 5+ programs and didnt work and u recoomending me these ones will work...

Well ok i will give it a shot...
thnxs

[Sefy]

From experience, NERO can handle Bad Sectors pretty good, and so can BlindWrite, I usually use BlindWrite actually, if it doesn't work, then I use NERO to try copying.

[likwid8]

Ok i used to NERO but there is a problem..

It starts out a 2 MB/sec transfer, and right after bout half way through it hits 144K and it slows down completely, so it doesnt keep on going, plus also i noticed my cd drive stopped responding to the drive as it slowed down.... so basically it got stuck at 50% hehhe...

I dunno if im willing to try blindwrite... seems like im just adding to the list of burning programs to my computer... but if its my last resort then ok i guess....

reply asap
thnx

[Sefy]

In which of the drives you have did you put the CD for reading ?
I Strongly suggest you use the CDRW drive, it will handle errors better.

Also, Let Nero work overnight, if there are bad sectors it slows it down, but it WILL copy the disc!

[likwid8]

Well i tried using my DVD ROM drive because it reads faster then my CDRW, but yah i tried both, and when i was using nero, i tried using my CDRW, so i was set, i was trying to accomplish the completion within 10 minutes but it was taking too long so i stopped it, but I think I will take your advice and leave it overnight, I guess it wouldnt hurt to try it, thnxs and appreciate it?

P.S. CD1 didnt have bad sectors? what could it have been? Burning it too fast.... my burner is 40X..... burned a bin/cue?

matters? thnxs reply!!

take care

[Sefy]

Nope, I don't think it's speed, it could be media, a scratch, dirt, just a defect

[Betamax]

Maybe a suggestion..:
I also have found vcd's with bad sectors in my (S)VCD collection and whenever I try to create a new (S)VCD of it, it seems that the ripping-part works best when I do the ripping in my DVD-player (in my PC).
The CDR and CDRW seems to have problems too with those bad sectors...

Regards,